Around 300 million years ago, the area now known as Chicago was a vibrant landscape filled with tropical swamps, river deltas ...

Streets are flooded across the Chicago area on Tuesday after storms brought heavy downpours to the city and suburbs.While the heaviest rain has stopped, scattered storms and showers are continuing to ...

Chicago-area residents have been asked to reduce water use, including delaying showers and not doing laundry, as heavy rains ...

Rockford, the state's largest city outside of the Chicago metropolitan area, remained Illinois' fifth-largest city. From there, another Chicago suburb, Elgin, takes the reigns at the No. 6 spot ...

The median price of homes sold in the nine-county Chicago metro area in May was $379,900, according to Illinois Realtors. It's the highest monthly median on record and up 1.3% from the prior ...

Chicago officially had the worst air quality in the world for a few hours Thursday. As a haze of Canadian wildfire smoke ...

Concern for poor air quality in the greater Chicago area remains as the Illinois EPA extends its alert until Thursday night.

It’s unclear whether any tornadoes touched down in the Chicago metro, but Gary, Indiana, was hit. Then overnight, parts of the Chicago metro area got snow.